Sutras 4.21

"If one mind were illumined by another, as it's master,
then there would be an endless and absurd
progression of cognitions, as well as confusion."

Yoga Sutras 4.21

Stop Talking

"After all is said and done, more is said than done."

Aesop

Learn

"There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning."

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Chaos

"One must still have chaos in oneself
to be able to give birth to a dancing star."

Nietzsche

Technique Becomes Art

"Technical knowledge is not enough.
One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art,
growing out of the unconscious."

D.T. Suzuki

Lived

"Everything must come from the heart, must be lived."

Pina Bausch

No Ground

"The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute.
The good news is there’s no ground."

Chogyum Trungpa

Scales

"The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales."

Aesop

Zen

"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes.
Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes."

Alan Watts

Can’t Deny Denial

"When a thing is denied, the very denial involves something not denied."

D.T. Suzuki

Own Yourself

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened.
But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

Nietzsche

Lighten Life

"Compassion is not having any hesitation to reflect your light on things."

Chogyum Trungpa

Faith

"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water.
When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water,
because if you do you will sink and drown.
Instead you relax, and float."

Alan Watts

Sultra 1.23-1.29

"Devotion and letting go into one's creative source is a particular consciousness unaffected by thoughts, actions or results and it is from this that the most ancient teachers were taught. The sacred word for this source is the sound OM and it is remembered for what it represents. Then from this remembering comes the realization of the true self and the removal of obstacles."

Yoga Sultra 1.23-1.29

Krishna

""It is better to live one's inner law imperfectly than another's law perfectly.""

Krishna to Arjuna from Bhagavad-Gita

Sutra 1.4

"At other times, when one is not in self-realization, the seer appears to take on the form of the modifications of the mind field, taking on the identity of those thought patterns."

Yoga Sutra 1.4

Hard

"Is it hard? Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard."

Robert Pirsig

Interest

"I'm not interested in how people move, but what moves them."

Pina Bausch

Teaching Youth

""The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.""

Nietzsche

Coconuts Everywhere

"In the garden of gentle sanity,
May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness."

Chogyum Trungpa

Dancing

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

Nietzsche

Sultra 2.12-2.25

"Ignorance can be defined as our attachment to our thoughts and experiences as the revelation of our true selves. Enlightenment is simply an absence of this alignment or in other words 'letting go'."

My short perspective of Yoga Sultras 1.40-1.51

Out Of All This

"We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree."

Alan Watts

Place

"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there."

Robert Pirsig

Potential

"With yoga all is possible!
Yoga is an internal practice. The rest is just a circus."

Sri. K. Pattabhi Jois | Ashtanga Yoga Founder

Understand?

"We cannot make ourselves understand;
the most we can do is to foster a state of mind,
in which understanding may come to us."

Aldous Huxley

Do Not Really Fail

"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame someone else."

Pre

Sultras 1.40-1.51

"Caught on the object of the mind, you can see the spilling of true concentration."

My humble short interpretation of the Yoga Sultras 1.40-1.51

God

"I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance."

Nietzsche

Way

"You have your way. I have my way.
As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."

Nietzsche

Within

"In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself."

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Everyone Has a Pose

"Guruji (Sri K. Pattabhi Jois) had an amazing capacity to peel back the layers of your being and, in his exacting way, pierce you to the core. Once, he suddenly burst out laughing, saying, ” There is a pose to break everyone!” And break us through, he did: our ambition, our puffed-up pride, our laziness and complacency, rending our hearts open."

Sharon Gannon and David Life | Yoga Journal Editors

“You know, you don’t throw a whole life away just ’cause he’s banged up a little.” – Tom Smith. “You know, everybody thinks we found this broken-down horse and fixed him, but we didn’t. He fixed us. Every one of us. And I guess
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About

Elite Athlete,Yogi, Fitness Instructor, Artist and Designer; Jason resides in the Sea To Sky area (Vancouver and Squamish BC, Canada).

Jason is humbled to of been involved with super interesting team experiences as an elite athlete and knows what it takes to enable us to run through those physical, mental, emotional and spiritual mountains.

He believes that creating a better training presence through our efforts imparts positive energy, wisdom and hope. Jason hopes to add more than take away from this journey and since we must train lets train towards a better day… together.

Within

"In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself."

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Dancing

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

Nietzsche

No Ground

"The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute.
The good news is there’s no ground."

Chogyum Trungpa

Technique Becomes Art

"Technical knowledge is not enough.
One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art,
growing out of the unconscious."

D.T. Suzuki

Do Not Really Fail

"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame someone else."

Pre

Can’t Deny Denial

"When a thing is denied, the very denial involves something not denied."

D.T. Suzuki

Chaos

"One must still have chaos in oneself
to be able to give birth to a dancing star."

Nietzsche

Place

"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there."

Robert Pirsig

Scales

"The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales."

Aesop

Out Of All This

"We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree."

Alan Watts

Hard

"Is it hard? Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard."

Robert Pirsig

Sutra 1.4

"At other times, when one is not in self-realization, the seer appears to take on the form of the modifications of the mind field, taking on the identity of those thought patterns."

Yoga Sutra 1.4

Understand?

"We cannot make ourselves understand;
the most we can do is to foster a state of mind,
in which understanding may come to us."

Aldous Huxley

Teaching Youth

""The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.""

Nietzsche

Own Yourself

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened.
But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

Nietzsche

Sultras 1.40-1.51

"Caught on the object of the mind, you can see the spilling of true concentration."

My humble short interpretation of the Yoga Sultras 1.40-1.51

Lived

"Everything must come from the heart, must be lived."

Pina Bausch

Everyone Has a Pose

"Guruji (Sri K. Pattabhi Jois) had an amazing capacity to peel back the layers of your being and, in his exacting way, pierce you to the core. Once, he suddenly burst out laughing, saying, ” There is a pose to break everyone!” And break us through, he did: our ambition, our puffed-up pride, our laziness and complacency, rending our hearts open."

Sharon Gannon and David Life | Yoga Journal Editors

Sultra 1.23-1.29

"Devotion and letting go into one's creative source is a particular consciousness unaffected by thoughts, actions or results and it is from this that the most ancient teachers were taught. The sacred word for this source is the sound OM and it is remembered for what it represents. Then from this remembering comes the realization of the true self and the removal of obstacles."

Yoga Sultra 1.23-1.29

Lighten Life

"Compassion is not having any hesitation to reflect your light on things."

Chogyum Trungpa

Krishna

""It is better to live one's inner law imperfectly than another's law perfectly.""

Krishna to Arjuna from Bhagavad-Gita

Stop Talking

"After all is said and done, more is said than done."

Aesop

Way

"You have your way. I have my way.
As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."

Nietzsche

Sutras 4.21

"If one mind were illumined by another, as it's master,
then there would be an endless and absurd
progression of cognitions, as well as confusion."

Yoga Sutras 4.21

Sultra 2.12-2.25

"Ignorance can be defined as our attachment to our thoughts and experiences as the revelation of our true selves. Enlightenment is simply an absence of this alignment or in other words 'letting go'."

My short perspective of Yoga Sultras 1.40-1.51

Zen

"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes.
Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes."

Alan Watts

Potential

"With yoga all is possible!
Yoga is an internal practice. The rest is just a circus."

Sri. K. Pattabhi Jois | Ashtanga Yoga Founder

Coconuts Everywhere

"In the garden of gentle sanity,
May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness."

Chogyum Trungpa

Faith

"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water.
When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water,
because if you do you will sink and drown.
Instead you relax, and float."

Alan Watts

God

"I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance."

Nietzsche

Interest

"I'm not interested in how people move, but what moves them."

Pina Bausch

Learn

"There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning."

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The RTM Trained Philosophy believes in the opening of new doors towards training, thinking and embracing achievement as a holistic act.

Then incorporating philosophical approaches and holding the training journey in a unique sacred way allows for a wholehearted dive into unchartered potential with increased fun, spirit and drive.

Finally, we may only become our best by honouring our overall development and cherishing the journey along the way while striving to unfold the combined holistic potential through our physical achievements. A last reflection on our growth then starts the cycle all over again to reach that next level of achievement.

Define your own ‘Ready’ in your journey!

For interesting options to consider for your fitness training simply pick the approach you would like to take and the activity and we can take off from there.

The RTM Nature Trainee is a new personal training approach involving only using outdoor and natural tools for development as an athlete. Yes… think boulders, trees, sticks, mud, sand, sunshine and even rain. Connect, transform and get fit with the power of nature. The same approach can be done for Yoga, Pilates or a strictly outdoor Running focus.

The RTM Indoor Trainee is usually device or indoor environment specific in order to maximize time, concentration or focus in place of the more character developing focus above. Think facilities, props and more accurate measures to gauge progression. At your home, a rented facility or through an existing gym or studio.

The RTM Diverse Trainee combines the above pursuits with an indoor and outdoor training schedule in order to best maximize growth and balance in all regards.